Heineken has shown more humanity than any other ad... ever?

Heineken has gotten very political and it’s probably the most powerful commercial we’ve ever watched - side note they didn’t pay us to say that.

It’s everything Pepsi wasn’t.

Gone are the scantily clad women, the celebrity appearances and the big banger soundtracks you’re accustomed to in a beer commercial.

The ad is a giant social experiment, pairing people with polarising views on feminism, climate change and transgender rights.

Without knowing a thing about each other, these pairs then build a bar out of a flat pack, learning a little about the other as they go, on a very human level.

They’re asked what they think they have in common, how they would describe themselves, and what they like about the other.

Somewhat surprisingly, they all get on with each other, oblivious to their enormously varying political views.

Once the bar has been made, they find a couple bottles of Heineken, place them on the bar and are then confronted with a video that communicates their experiment partner’s grossly different world views.

Watching these peoples raw reactions is truly moving.

One man with an anti-transgender view says: “that’s not right. You’re a man, be a man; or you’re a female, be a female.”